Poker?!

Is there anything more frustrating as a sports fan than to know that at least a couple of games with pennant implications are happening (Phils-Braves and Wahoos-White Sox), and TBS is showing reruns of "Friends"? Worse yet, the paragon of sports programming (or so it would like us to believe), ESPN, is showing poker! POKER! Why is this on TV? What am I missing?

Or is this the "E" in ESPN coming to the fore?